TOKYO, Dec. 21, 2022—A Japanese lawmaker Dec. 22, 2022 tendered his resignation as a lower house lawmaker for effectively pilfering and underreporting political donations. He was a member of prime minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and was a reporter of the Yomiuri national daily.
Kentaro Sonoura, 50, who had been a lower house parliamentarian for 10 years. The Japanese media are reporting his irregularities and resignation with little analysis and follow-up stories, and touching hardly at all that he was at one time a Yomiuri Shimbun reporter.
Shame on Japanese journalism. But he won’t be arrested.
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